Actually, it looks like the official statement points towards the opposite direction. You can read it here, no need to believe my words:
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/lavrov-russia-s-goal-is-to-d...
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/lavrov-russia-s-goal-is-to-d...
Actually, Putin has given a few speeches on the topic. In the most recent one, I believe, he said that he wanted to annex Ukraine. After a previous speech in which he said that he doesn't believe Ukraine has any existence as an ethnic state, since Ukrainians are (to him) just Russians.